# US 2021/0276477 A1 · Control apparatus, vehicle, non-transitory computer readable medium, and control method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0276477 A1 - Document ID: US20210276477A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/190,657 - Filed: 2021-03-03 - Published: 2021-09-09 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-03 - Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Hiromitsu FUJII; Kohei MIWA; Yuko MIZUNO; Shinsuke ARIGA; Hirotaka OMISHA; Tsuyoshi OKADA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210276477A1 ## CPC - B60P 3/0257: {the object being a vending stall, restaurant or food kiosk} - G06Q 30/0281: {Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting} - G06Q 30/0283: Price estimation or determination - G06Q 30/0623: {by investigating goods or services} - G06Q 30/0645: Rental transactions; Leasing transactions - G08G 1/005: including pedestrian guidance indicator - G08G 1/202: {Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching} - G01C 21/343: {Calculating itineraries (travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047)} - B60P: VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G3/00) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) ## Abstract A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller that is configured to: identify a vehicle that stores a product in accordance with attribute information for a user, or a vehicle that can provide a service in accordance with the attribute information; and perform control to move the vehicle to provide the product or the service at a location of the user. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the control apparatus comprising a controller, wherein the controller is configured to: identify a vehicle that stores a product in accordance with attribute information for a user, or a vehicle that can provide a service in accordance with the attribute information; and perform control to move the vehicle to provide the product or the service at a location of the user. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein providing the product or the service comprises providing information explaining how to use the product or the service. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform control to provide, as the product or the service, a product or a service of a grade in accordance with the attribute information for the user. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein providing the product comprises selling or leasing the product. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when leasing the product, the controller adjusts a rental price according to the number of times that the product has been leased in the past. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to: acquire a schedule of the user; identify a visiting place of the user and an arrival time of the user at the visiting place; and perform control to provide the product or the service according to the visiting place of the user and the arrival time of the user. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The control apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to identify a product or a service which is not provided at the identified visiting place; and perform control to provide the identified product or the identified service. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The control apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to move the vehicle to the visiting place prior to arrival of the user at the visiting place at the arrival time. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) A vehicle equipped with the control apparatus according to claim 1. ### Claim 10 A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program configured to cause a computer, as a control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, to execute: identifying a vehicle that stores a product in accordance with attribute information for a user, or a vehicle that can provide a service in accordance with the attribute information; and control to move the vehicle to provide the product or the service at a location of the user. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein providing the product or the service comprises providing information explaining how to use the product or the service. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the program is configured to cause the computer to further execute control to provide, as the product or the service, a product or a service of a grade in accordance with the attribute information for the user. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein providing the product comprises selling or leasing the product. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the program is configured to cause the computer to, when leasing the product, further execute an operation to adjust a rental price according to the number of times that the product has been leased in the past. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the program is configured to cause the computer to further execute: acquiring a schedule of the user; identifying a visiting place of the user and an arrival time of the user at the visiting place; and control to provide the product or the service according to the visiting place of the user and the arrival time of the user. ### Claim 16 A control method performed by a control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the control method comprising: identifying a vehicle that stores a product in accordance with attribute information for a user, or a vehicle that can provide a service in accordance with the attribute information; and control to move the vehicle to provide the product or the service at a location of the user. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The control method according to claim 16, wherein providing the product or the service comprises providing information explaining how to use the product or the service. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The control method according to claim 16, wherein the control method further comprises control to provide, as the product or the service, a product or a service of a grade in accordance with the attribute information for the user. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The control method according to claim 16, wherein providing the product comprises selling or leasing the product. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The control method according to claim 19, further comprising, when leasing the product, adjusting a rental price according to the number of times that the product has been leased in the past.